Research Scientist Duke University Durham, North Carolina, United States
Session Abstract: Understanding students’ feelings of trust versus mistrust toward institutions in which they are living and learning has important implications for institutional policies, procedures, and communications, as well as interactions and relationships between students and individuals seen as representatives of the institution (e.g., faculty, administrators, and other academic professionals). This poster presents the development and initial validation of a self-report measure of institutional trust for undergraduate students, examining the psychometric properties of the measure and associations with measures of campus connectedness using data collected via an undergraduate check-in study across three academic years at a selective US private university. This poster will be of interest to academic professionals interested in measurement development and the role of institutional trust in student engagement with institutions of higher education.
